Fadhlina orders Moral Education subject review

Fadhlina orders Moral Education subject review

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek has directed the Examinations Syndicate to review the Moral Education subject for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) following complaints from the Indian community.

“When concerns about Moral Education were raised, and given the anxieties of parents and the community, I directed the Examinations Syndicate to review and improve it,” said Fadhlina at the Kalvi Yutham, an educational and motivational programme for Tamil students at SJK (T) Castlefield in Puchong yesterday.

Present were Selangor Education Department director Datin Wan Nor Ashikin Abu Kassim and Sri Murugan Centre director Surain Kanda.

Surain raised the issue ahead of Fadhlina’s address, and the minister said she was grateful for the community’s candour.

“I thank Surain for this. This is what we want when we talk about these issues. I cannot act as though I know everything. The era of the government knowing everything is over.

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“This is the era of working together to improve education.”

Surain said his organisation had raised concerns about the Moral Education subject through official channels.

“(Fadhlina) gave her assurance that the Moral Education issue would be revisited seriously.”

Surain said the community’s main grievances with the subject concerned the closed-book exam paper, marking system and grading threshold.

He said it should be an open system so that students would have past-year papers for revision.

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Surain also called for the holistic marking method used for language subjects to be replaced with analytical marking used for other subjects.

On the grading threshold, he said students needed to score 95 or above to obtain an A+, a bar he described as unreasonably high.

Surain also said the community’s request to increase matriculation slots for Indian students to 2,500 without encroaching on other quotas was modest and targeted.

In response, Fadhlina reaffirmed the government’s commitment to automatically offer matriculation places to students who scored straight As in their SPM examinations, regardless of their ethnic background.

She said the concerns among the Indian community of high-achieving students being denied matriculation places were legitimate but added that the government was addressing them.